A little over a decade ago, I went on a binge and made a bunch of web apps of various sorts:

• EditThis.info wiki hosting
• Cueflash flashcards study system
• ConstantSail pirate and trading game
• And atari combat and ast...

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Want to have your server update itself whenever you deploy to a github branch? Piece of cake:

https://github.com/RobKohr/github-hook-handler

I used Grommet for a react project, and here are some of my thoughts on it.

Things I like

• Works out of the box for most use cases
• Nice for form elements
• Gives a standard look and feel for the site without any need to work out details

Things I don't like

• A ...

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When doing react, I have on worked with CRA up until now. I just took over a next.js app, and when built and deployed, it is speedy, but didn't like some of the details of development:

• myApp/pages/page-name/index.js is how you create a route for /page-name. While quick and friendly, I prefer t...

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React hooks is what got me to actually like React enough to make it my primary web development framework (at least at this date). They break away from the ugly class based heavily nested object form of React, and make it truly more functional, while giving allowances for managing state in a sta...

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UPDATE: My feelings about this have changed quite a bit, a follow up article is to come. The summary is that React has gotten so much easier with React hooks that my recommendations here have changed.

A little background

I did about 5 years of AngularJS (not newer Angular) development, 1.5 ...

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